Andaman and Nicobar Administration

Directorate of IP&T

Information & Publicity Division

 

 

 

Port Blair November 26, 2014.

 

 

 

Press Release

 

 

 

 

Mrs Irina K Bashkirova, Consul General of the Russian Federation in Kolkata (India) called on Hon’ble Lt Governor, Lt Gen AK Singh (Retd),

at Raj Niwas on 26.11.2014.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A&N Employment Guarantee Council (ANEGC) on MGNREGA meets

 

        The 7th meeting of A&N Employment Guarantee Council (ANEGC) on MGNREGA has been held today, on 26th November, 2014 at 11:45 AM at Megapode Nest under the Chairmanship of Hon’ble Lt. Governor. The meeting was organised by the Directorate of RD/PRIs. It was attended by Chief Secretary, Secretaries of various departments, District Collectors of all the three districts, Chairman Tribal Council, Teressa and representations of various PRIs.

 

 

        At the outset of the Council meeting, Shri N.K. Sharma, Secretary (RD/PRIs) welcomed everyone. This was followed by a presentation on performance of MGNREGA in this UT. The actionable points and decisions taken during the last ANEGC meeting which was held on 23rd Sept, 2014 were discussed. The Council was apprised that MGNREGA scheme is being implemented in this UT very successfully and that in the financial year 2013-14, as against the target of 785000 persondays, 834307 persondays was generated, which comes to 106% - much more than the fixed target. The Council was also apprised that among the persondays generated, 48% was women and also that 100 days of employment was provided to around 2700 households in this UT, thereby abiding by the very objective of the scheme to provide 100 days of guaranteed wage employment to the rural adult who volunteer to do unskilled manual work.

 

        Also, various issues were taken up by the PRIs and the Hon’ble Lt Governor instructed the concerned department and DCs to take up the issues in a time bound manner. The Hon’ble Lt Governor also gave directions to sort out all inter-departmental issues for smooth implementation of the scheme. The DCs and PRIs were also instructed to promote the scheme effectively in this UT and ensure that more and more people come forward to take up MGNREGA work.

 

        The meeting ended with a Vote of thanks to the Chair.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hon’ble Lt Governor, Lt Gen A K Singh (Retd), chairing the A&N Employment Guarantee Council meeting to review the performance of MGNREGA

at Megapode Resort on 26.11.2014. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

LG reviews progress of developmental works and projects

 

        Port Blair, November 26: Hon’ble Lt Governor,  A&N Islands held a review on the progress of developmental works and projects  in Great Nicobar Islands with Chief Secretary and Deputy Commissioner, to-day.  Hon’ble Lt. Governor expressed his concern regarding the pace of work in the Islands and directed the Chief Secretary to conduct a meeting at his level with various Administrative Secretaries to review such works of Campbell Bay and give definite timelines. Hon’ble Lt. Governor will visit Campbell Bay in the latter half of December.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Power suspension

 

        Power supply will remain suspended in some of the areas on 29.11.2014 from 0800 hours to 1600 hours for carrying out maintenance work near DBRAIT campus.

 

        The areas to be affected by power disruption are Dollygunj village and Old Pahargaon village.